YoYoNation pledges allegiance to open source
,----[ Quote ]
| Patrick Cuartero and Weber Hsu launched YoYoNation in 2005, after working
| with SUSE Linux on mainframes
|
| [...]
|
| One important aspect to running the store has been finding the
| right hosting company. "We just migrated to dedicated hosting,"
| Cuartero says. "Hosting for Linux is a lot less expensive than
| with Microsoft. It's helped us."
`----
http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/02/1557237&tid=3
An alternative is learning how to knit because the servers take care of
themselves.
Unix vs. Windows or: sometimes a fool is just a fool
,----[ Quote ]
| Mine is that his own people not only can't do the job, but can't
| conceive of doing the job - "inconceivable" he calls it, despite
| having a staff large enough to devote 30 of them just to PC security
| battles. In other words, I can only conclude that he has a Wintel
| organization with Wintel staff who would put up enormous procedural,
| knowledge, and technology barriers if he tried to bring this stuff
| in-house without first out-sourcing it - and it's no coincidence
| that I know a lot of other IT managers in the same position.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=766#
|
|
